Maladies contagieuses dans les villes globalisées

Epidemic Urbanism. Contagious Diseases in Global Cities

Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq (eds.)

Intellect book

408 pages | Dec 17, 2021
Available
ISBN 9781789384703
Paperback
244 x 170 mm

This volume includes essays that deploy interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the mutual relationship between pandemics and the built environment. The chapters cover case studies from all five continents. Each chapter will focus on the story of a pandemic in a particular city or region. The chapters will be brief (1700–2000 words) and will be developed based on a strict structure provided by the book editors. Each chapter will include historical context (500 words), case study (700 words), and conclusion (300 words). Each chapter will include 3–4 historical images that depict historical epidemics and pandemics. The book will be opened and concluded by two well-known scholars from public health and medical anthropology. These two chapters will address pandemics and epidemics in the last fifty years as well as the COVID-19 crisis and how history helps us have a better understanding of the post-COVID era.

Bourse Louise Carpenter Gloeckner

M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, MD Summer Research Fellowship

Call for applications

The M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, MD Summer Research Fellowship is offered annually by the Legacy Center at Drexel University College of Medicine. A $4,000 award is offered to one applicant for self-directed research using the Center's Women in Medicine Collection. Research may begin on or after June 1 and may extend up to 6 weeks. 

This award was established in memory of M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, MD by her husband Frederick Gloeckner in recognition of her key leadership role in the medical profession. This is a competitive annual award open to scholars, students and general researchers.

In addition to materials related to the history of the Woman's Medical College/Medical College of Pennsylvania, the collections have particular strengths in the history of women in medicine, nursing, medical missionaries, the American Medical Women's Association, American Women's Hospital Service, and other women in medicine organizations. The majority of the collections fall within the period 1850 to the present.

Download Gloeckner Fellowship application [PDF]

L'inoculation dans l'Allemagne du 18e siècle

Battling Smallpox before Vaccination. Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Germany
 

Jennifer D. Penschow 

 

Brill

Series: Clio Medica, Volume: 105
Copyright Year:2022
ISBN:978-90-04-46537-4 

 

Author: When smallpox inoculation entered western medical practice in 1721 it aroused considerable controversy. A broad-based cohort of enlightened Germans such as publishers, poets, pastors and elite women attempted to dispel the doubts and encourage the innovative procedure. Yet many parents remained fearful, and the contagiousness of inoculation also necessitated a new approach. National pride in the past defeat of bubonic plague aroused optimism that smallpox could be banished using a similar strategy. The arrival in 1800 of Jenner’s vaccine ended the debates by offering yet another promising new approach.
Battling Smallpox before Vaccination explores the social and medical impacts of inoculation. It offers belated recognition for the valiant attempts of the many protagonists battling against the so-called ‘murdering angel’ before Edward Jenner’s discovery of vaccination. It provides a comprehensive description and penetrating analysis of the understanding and perception of smallpox, the propagation of pro-inoculation information, varied reactions to inoculation, and debates over the idealistic goal of eradicating smallpox.

Histoire globale et intersectionnelle de l'émergence des droits reprodutifs

Whose choice, whose rights? Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945


Call for abstracts

Glasgow, UK / online, 9 and 10 June 2022

At this conference, we explore the emergence of notions of reproductive rights, reproductive justice and reproductive choice and autonomy over the course of the second half of the 20th Century. Papers will be focused on the changing status of the reproductive body in public, medical and legal discourse throughout this period, taking post-World War 2 reconstruction as the starting point and the definition of reproductive rights by the United Nations at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994 as the endpoint. We will analyse the emergence of notions of reproductive rights against the backdrop of changing gender roles, sexual revolutions, processes of medicalisation, changing forms of mass communication, and wider contexts such as decolonisation, the emergence of the UN system and human rights discourse, and the globalisation of demographic debate.

Focusing on topics such as birth control, family planning, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies and sterilisation, we will explore political, expert and public discourse as well as intimate practices and norms surrounding bodily autonomy, family, and sexual practice. We ask presenters to engage with the key historical shifts in this period: the medicalisation of reproductive bodies, the feminisation of reproductive choice and responsibility, the changing notions of human rights, and the hierarchisation of reproductive subjects according to social markers such as race, social class and ability.

Presenters are encouraged to take into consideration more than one locality or country through a comparative, transnational or global approach. Papers tackling contemporary issues are welcome, but they should engage with longer-term historical developments or genealogies. Full papers should be no more than 15 minutes long. At the conference, papers are presented and then discussed by a discussant, followed by wider debate.

You are welcome to submit panel proposals with 3-4 papers. Please indicate clearly which proposals together form a panel, and identify the title of the panel and one convenor who will be one of the paper authors.

Abstracts should be sent by 7 February 2022 to reproductive-rights@glasgow.ac.uk. Please send us one Word or Pdf file with the following:

· A 300-word abstract

· A 100-word biographical note

· Contact details

· Details of the panel of which the paper forms part (if applicable)

· Whether you plan to attend in person (Glasgow), online, or could do either.

· If you are based in a Low- and Middle Income Country, or if you are employed on a temporary academic contract anywhere in the world, you may be eligible to financial support for travel and accommodation. Justify this with a 100-word note.

Full draft papers will be required by 9 May 2022 and are then sent to your discussant. They should correspond to 15-minute speaking time; they need not be fully referenced at this stage. We are planning the publication of selected papers as part of a special issue in a leading international journal in 2023.

The conference is organised by the Reproductive Rights International Network: Maud Bracke (Glasgow, convenor), Chiara Bonfiglioli (Cork), Omar Gueye (Dakar), Agata Ignaciuk (Granada), Ruth A Miller (UMass Boston), Raul Necochea (North Carolina), Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Strathclyde), Bibia Pavard (Paris II), Jadwiga Pieper Mooney (Arizona), Milica Prokic (Glasgow), Caroline Rusterholz (Cambridge), Christine Whyte (Glasgow).

It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Project nr. AH/V008420/1 (’Inventing Reproductive Rights: Sex, Bodies and Population, 1945-1995’).


Contact Info:
Dr Maud Bracke, University of Glasgow

Contact Email:
reproductive-rights@glasgow.ac.uk

Aux limites de la cure

At the Limits of Cure
 

Bharat Jayram Venkat

 

Duke University Press
Published: November 2021

 Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat examines what it means to be cured, and what it means for a cure to come undone. At the Limits of Cure tells a story that stretches from the colonial period—a time of sanatoria, travel cures, and gold therapy—into a postcolonial present marked by antibiotic miracles and their failures. Venkat juxtaposes the unraveling of cure across a variety of sites: in idyllic hill stations and crowded prisons, aboard ships and on the battlefield, and through research trials and clinical encounters. If cure is frequently taken as an ending (of illness, treatment, and suffering more generally), Venkat provides a foundation for imagining cure otherwise in a world of fading antibiotic efficacy.

Histoire de la santé autochtone au Canada

Histoire de la santé autochtone au Canada

Journée d’étude en ligne

4 février 2022
Université de Montréal

Lien Zoom :
https://umontreal.zoom.us/j/8
7698315801?pwd=ZlRYSnZJN2
hYSE4zYml2c0IzRnRFZz09 

Pour informations, contacter :
antoine.csuzdi-vallee@umontreal.ca

9h30 : Mots de bienvenue et présentation
Mathieu Arsenault et Michael Huberman, Université de Montréal

10h – 10h45 : Conférence d’ouverture
Indigenous and Colonial Health Histories: Dispatches from Manitoba
Mary Jane McCallum, University of Winnipeg

11h – 12h30 : Séance 1 : Maladies, médecine et colonisation des Premières Nations
Vaccine Hesitancy in Indigenous Communities: the Deep Roots of a Recent Phenomenon
James Daschuk, University of Regina

Indigenous Tuberculosis, Community-engaged Research, and the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project
Erin Millions, Research Director, Manitoba Indigenous TB History Project

Separated Even in Death : Creating a Research Guide to Deaths and Burials at Indian Hospitals and Sanitaria in Manitoba, 1930 to 1970
Anne Lindsay, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Winnipeg

12h30 – 13h30 : Pause

13h30 – 15h : Séance 2 : Santé et soins du corps autochtones au Canada
Soins infirmiers et santé autochtone
Jolianne Ottawa, infirmière clinicienne, Conseil de bande de Manawan

Pour en finir avec le colonialisme médical canadien
Samir Shaheen-Hussain, pédiatre urgentiste et professeur adjoint, Université McGill

15h – 16h : Séance plénière : Historien.ne.s et praticien.ne.s face aux enjeux de la santé autochtone

Mots de fin et remerciements

L'artiste en fou criminel

Portrait de l'artiste en fou criminel 

Anouck Cape

Gruppen éditions
Date de parution : 14 janvier 2022
Nombre de pages : 124
Isbn : 978-2-919103-22-5

Ce travail se concentre sur l’étude de romans d’avant-garde publiés entre 1903 et 1926 auxquels se joint un texte de Blaise Cendrars daté de 1948. Leur présentation chronologique met en évidence l’évolution d’une thématique centrale, celle de la parenté du fou criminel et du poète à travers laquelle le meurtre devient de plus en plus clairement une métaphore de l’insurrection sociale, elle-même transmuée en activité poétique. Ce faisant l’avant-garde subvertit l’héritage psychiatrique dans lequel elle puise très largement, et en inverse, de manière militante, l’ordre des valeurs.

I. À l’orée du siècle : folie, crime et subversion

– Psychiatrie et littérature à la fin du 19e siècle : figures du dégénéré
– Variations autour des romans d’asile : Force ennemie, de John Antoine Nau, et Le brasier,
de G. A. Denis
– Les libérés de Ricciotto Canudo

II. Figures de l’insurrection
– Moravagine de Cendrars et Joseph Vacher, grands fauves humains
– Céleste Ugolin de Ribemont-Dessaignes : folie et désarroi
– Fébronio de Cendrars, meurtrier inspiré

Art et anatomie interne

Art and Internal Anatomy. Michelangelo, Bronzino, and Mannerist Bodies

Talk by Christian Kleinbub – Ohio State University 

 

Webinar - 8 February 2022, 5.00-6.30 pm (CET)


This talk takes issue with this perspective, turning to artworks to build a different point of view. Building on the speaker’s research on Michelangelo’s investment in internal anatomical matters, this talk proposes that other artists of his time, especially Bronzino, paid particular attention to the meaning of the internal organs like the liver, heart, and brain, referencing those organs to explain the internal states of represented bodies. Although such references were only occasionally systematic, this talk contends that they contributed to something like an elite visual language of the body that depended on a long tradition in Tuscan poetry with special reference to Dante. Anatomy is featured throughout the practice and theorization of Italian art in the sixteenth century. Yet, almost without exception, the textual and pictorial evidence has been taken to suggest that artists were concerned only with superficial anatomy, those parts of the body visible on its outsides such as muscles, bones, and sinews.

These findings emphasize that the Mannerist body cannot be easily dismissed as a matter only of arbitrary or ornamental form, and they cause us to rethink what “artificiality” means in discussing the art of the period.

The event is free to attend but registration is required. To register click here.
Info at: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events-and-activities/online/internal-anatomy/


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